Preventing Infinite Loops With a Valid Terminal Condition

The final topic is the dreaded infinite loop. Loops are great tools when you need your program to run a code block a certain number of times or until a condition is met, but they need a terminal condition that ends the looping.
It's the programmer's job to ensure that the terminal condition, which tells the program when to break out of the loop code, is eventually reached.
Ex: The myFunc() function contains an infinite loop because the terminal condition i != 4 will never evaluate to false (and break the looping) - i will increment by 2 each pass, and jump right over 4 since i is odd to start. Fix the comparison operator in the terminal condition so the loop only runs for i less than or equal to 4.

function myFunc() {
  for (let i = 1; i != 4; i += 2) {
    console.log("Still going!");
  }
}

function myFunc() {
  for (let i = 1; i <= 4; i += 2) {
    console.log("Still going!");
  }
}
myFunc();

i starts at 1. i which is 1 first is less than or equal to four so we continue forward. i is now 3 because i will increment by 2 each pass. 3 is less than or equal to four so we continue. i is now 5. 5 isnt less than or equal to four so we stop a the console will display

Still going!
Still going!

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